According to data gathered from the New Horizons spacecraft, scientists say that Pluto is likely to have water ice, geysers, and volcanoes. The ice mountains are 11,000 feet high, and the planet's ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

The tiny dwarf planet has continued to baffle ... Scientists have long suspected that crazy ice volcanoes, called cryovolcanoes, exist on Pluto and Ceres and even Saturn’s moon Titan, but ...

Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public ... allowing salt water to ooze out of ice volcanoes. Astrobiologists have wondered if simple, microbial life could exist ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Venus — a hot planet pocked ... polygonal patterns on Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia region that resemble plate boundaries on Earth. These polygons are formed by slow convection currents in a 4 km-thick ...

Pluto — famous for being reclassified as a dwarf planet — might not have a heart of ice after all. In fact, every bit of Pluto was assumed to be frozen over considering its distance from the Sun.

NASA on Friday released its first glimpse of a strange mosaic of ice on Pluto. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Trump Announces 25% Tariffs on All Cars Made Outside the U.S.

Venus—a hot planet ... Pluto's Sputnik Planitia region that resemble plate boundaries on Earth. These polygons are formed by slow convection currents in a 4 km-thick layer of solid nitrogen ice.